execration

Example Sentences

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And if they are remembered at all, it will be with execration and contempt.

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2020

There’s a long, proud tradition in comedy of taking advantage of whatever stage and microphone you’ve been handed and doing whatever you can to ensure you’re greeted with howls of execration.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2019

“So long as there are Americans, his memory will be cherished with execration and loathing.”

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2014

At Barbados, the first stop, his rhapsody over scarlet poinsettias brought a hysterically savage execration from an Englishwoman returning to exile in Colombia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Your monument shall be the execration of your motherland--the curse of a ruined race your requiem!'

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis